Bill Gates urges governments not to subsidize "green energy", but to invest in innovative projects and basic research.
Bill Gates has invested about a billion dollars in startups in the field of renewable energy and plans to invest as much in the next five years. In an interview with the Financial Times, Gates said that existing technologies can reduce emissions at the expense of “astronomical costs”, and only powerful innovations will lead to this result.
Founder of Microsoft has invested in fifteen companies directly and in thirty projects through Khosla Ventures and Kleiner Perkins venture funds. Bill Gates has invested in batteries, nuclear power generation, carbon capture and storage from the air.
Gates called on governments to invest part of the green energy subsidies in funding basic research. In his opinion, only innovations change the alignment. According to the billionaire, around the world they spend one hundred billion dollars a year on subsidizing renewable energy, and only six billion on research and development work in this area.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation actively invests in projects related to improving the quality of life. In 2013, the fund invested in a startup that creates a solution for generating urine-based electrical energy: the device will help charge mobile phones in the absence of outlets. The fund has invested in OmniProcessor, a system that turns sewage into water and receives electricity from it. In 2011, the scientist Szabolcs Marka (Szabolcs Marka) received a million dollars from Gates to develop a laser-based mosquito repellent - a tool designed to combat the spread of malaria.
Founder of Microsoft has invested in fifteen companies directly and in thirty projects through Khosla Ventures and Kleiner Perkins venture funds. Bill Gates has invested in batteries, nuclear power generation, carbon capture and storage from the air.
Gates called on governments to invest part of the green energy subsidies in funding basic research. In his opinion, only innovations change the alignment. According to the billionaire, around the world they spend one hundred billion dollars a year on subsidizing renewable energy, and only six billion on research and development work in this area.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation actively invests in projects related to improving the quality of life. In 2013, the fund invested in a startup that creates a solution for generating urine-based electrical energy: the device will help charge mobile phones in the absence of outlets. The fund has invested in OmniProcessor, a system that turns sewage into water and receives electricity from it. In 2011, the scientist Szabolcs Marka (Szabolcs Marka) received a million dollars from Gates to develop a laser-based mosquito repellent - a tool designed to combat the spread of malaria.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/292000/
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